It's not too bad, -7C, so 19F. A heat wave compared to your temp.

Hi Terri, What's your outdoor temp up there in Calgary tonight? Rolando

You’re a trendsetter, Jeff. Roland, Marj and I are now enjoying some warm liquid Apple Pie made by our Chief Designer’s wife. It’s delicious. Jealous of the bunny slippers, though. For

It didn't occur to me to take pictures of the readheads, which are marked as Low Temp. About 20% of the mounts have them. Rolando

Thank you Roland, I feel much, much better now. I am a Mechanical Engineer, so I love taking things apart, but I won't be taking the Mach2 apart. .....at least for a while anyways. Terry

Even with so-so seeing, the mount's running pretty good (see below). I switched from sidereal tracking to King rate in the keypad and the RA tracking immediately went down from 0.2 to 0.15 rms and for

Ouch! That's mean!! (Sounds great though) Rolando

Now there’s an image I can’t unsee…. 🤣 Karen AP

Ray APPC Pro notified me of an update (1.8.8.17) which installed cleanly. Thanks! Bryan

Just came in myself. I'm located in my living room, warming up in front of the fireplace, in my comfy chair, jammies on, wrapped in my thick bathrobe, feet propped up on the ottoman wearing my pink

Wow, cool! What are you shooting? Rolando

I did the final assembly on all the Mach2 mounts, and your mount was ordered with Low Temp encoders, and that's what it has in it. You ordered from your dealer who probably kept the paperwork that you

Hi Rolando, How can I tell whether my Mach2 has Extended Temperature Encoders in it or not? I just received my Mach2 a couple days ago and there was no paper work with it. Supposedly, I ordered the

Hey Roland. I’ve got my Mach2 up and running tonight as well. Its currently 14° Here in central Iowa. So not too far from you. Going to be imaging all night. So far it’s doing great. getting 10

We're somewhat north of you, plus you probably have slightly more heat domes in your neighborhood. 11 is balmy Rolando

Hi Rolando Just south of you in Naperville. Temp is now 11 deg according to my weather station. cytan Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

Hi Cytan, Where are you located, and how cold is it there? We have a nice Canadian high pressure above now with arctic air coming right out of the north. Supposed to go down to -5 to -15 F tonight

Hi Rolando, You're a tough guy! I was outside and decided that discretion was the better part of valor and chickened out :) cytan

Hi Astronuts, First clear night in a month, fired up the 160 EDF on the Mach2 mount at the AP observatory. There's also a 155 EDF riding piggyback, but not being used tonight. It's 5 deg F (-15C)

Hi Luca, Thank you for the logs. This was an unusual case in that there happened to be a race condition between the horizon limit being reached and the update of the RA/Dec tracking rates because the